Information on Seat Selection

In best available seat booking, you choose a category of seats and select the number of tickets you would like. An automatic allocation of seats will take place within the selected category; you receive the best available seats.

Information on Online Sales

Ticket pre-sales for performances at all venues generally begin on the same date two months before the day of the performance. If the first pre-sale date falls on a Saturday or Sunday, then pre-sales will begin on that Friday. If it falls on a holiday, then sales will begin the day before. Some events cannot be purchased through online sales. For such cases, please contact our telephone ticket service ((+49) (0) 711. 20 20 90, Mon – Fri 10 am – 8 pm, Sat 10 am – 6 pm). Performances outside of the previously mentioned pre-sale periods can be ordered using the online ordering form. Please examine our general information on ticket pre-sales.

Gift certificates can be transferred to third parties and are valid up to three years after the issue date. The period begins on December 31 of the year the certificate has been purchased. An extension of this period is excluded. The disbursement of the certificate value is not possible. The monetary value will be offset against the price (higher differences must be paid). Existing remaining amounts are disbursed as another gift certificate. A later setting-off of a certificate to a purchase already made is not possible. Gift certificates cannot be used for the purchase of further certificates.

Tickets or gift vouchers can be sent out for a shipping fee of 1.50 €, if the time of the order allows for it. The Staatstheater Stuttgart cannot accept any responsibility for the shipment.
Confirmation of purchase will automatically be sent by email to the address you provided, as soon as purchase of your order has been initiated.
By presenting printed confirmation of purchase, tickets can be picked up at the theatre box office or at the appropriate performance box office; gift vouchers only at the theatre box office (Mon – Fri 10 am – 7 pm, Sat 10 am – 2 pm).
Only printed tickets are valid as passes for means of transport with the VVS. Printed confirmations of purchase will not be accepted as valid ride passes for the VVS.

You can purchase any of our print@home ticket(s) (with the start of season 14/15) at any time and print them out yourself. This booking service is available to you until 1 hour before a performance starts at no additional cost and is specified during the booking via choice of shipping option. After completing the purchasing transaction, the desired ticket will be displayed as a PDF file and can be printed immediately. You will receive a confirmation of purchase at the email address you have provided, with the ticket file as an attachement. The personalization of each ticket with a name and date of birth prevents improper duplication for the protection of the purchaser. Each ticket entitles the holder to one unique admission in conjunction with a valid ID. If there are any questions, please contact our telephone sales office ((+49) (0) 711. 20 20 90). Operating hours telephone sales office: Mon - Fri 10 am - 08 pm; Sat 10 am - 06 pm.

print@home ticket = transit ticketYour print@home ticket is valid as a transit ticket for public transportation in the VVS system at no additional cost and will automatically beeig print with your print@home ticket. Please pay attention to the required personalisation during the booking transaction.

VITA

James Tuggle was born in Portland, Oregon/USA. He studied conducting in Los Angeles between 1972 and 1976 with his mentor Fritz Zweig and continued his education at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria with Otmar Suitner.

From 1974 to 1976 James Tuggle was engaged by the San Diego Opera as conductor. As of 1977 on he was assistant conductor for the three season festival production Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Seattle Opera. In 1982 he gave his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and was immediately offered an engagement as conductor, a position he maintained the following 1983/84 season. In this time he also conducted concerts throughout Europe.

In September 1984 he accepted the position of music director with the Stuttgart Ballet. In addition to the intensive conducting schedule in Stuttgart, this position also gave him the possibility to work with orchestras all over the world as a result of the intensive touring schedule of the company. In 1988 James Tuggle started to work together with the choreographer Youri Vamos, first in Bonn then in Basel, Switzerland as of 1991. After a very successful debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in 1993, James Tuggle was engaged there as main conductor and musical advisor for the ballet and as opera conductor. From 1996 to 2001 he guested regularly at the Komische Oper Berlin and at the Opera in Rome.

In 1997 James Tuggle returned to the Stuttgart Ballet as Music Director, where he conducts a wide repertory of works and tours around the world with the company. In 2001 he conducted for American Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera House, since 2002 he is a regular guest conductor with the Paris Opera Ballet, the Wiener Staatsoper, La Scala in Milan, the National Ballet of Portugal, the Hong Kong Ballet and the Semperoper Ballet in Dresden.

In addition to conducting for ballet, James Tuggle conducts a large repertoire which contains almost all standard works from symphony and opera. He is noted in particular for his performances of the German repertoire of the late 19th century, for which he has received acclaim by colleagues and critics.